Developer Guides / concept
Service Order Open API Developer Guide
Use the Service Order Open API to create, update, and retrieve service order information.The Service Order Open API can be extended by editing script includes.
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Developer Guides / concept
Use the Service Order Open API to create, update, and retrieve service order information.The Service Order Open API can be extended by editing script includes.
Operational technology / task
These are the instructions for upgrading the Discovery Console for OT. The scope of this document does not include how to upgrade the containerized version of the Console.
Developer Guides / concept
Use the Product Order Open API to create, update, and retrieve product order information.The Product Order Open API can be extended by editing script includes.
User Administration / concept
You can create records with duplicate company names in extension tables, such as Customer Account [customer_account] table, without causing normalization conflicts in Normalization Data Services.Configure the Normalization Data Services feature to enable records with duplicate…
Scripts / concept
The syntax editor can display context-sensitive API information.
Export to PowerPoint for Application Portfolio Management / reference
Use the Related Tables form to define the child tables for the configured parent table. This Related Tables helps in fetching data to export the project status report as Microsoft PowerPoint.
Connections and Credentials / task
Generate the custom data needed to authenticate to a web service by running script.
Contract Management Pro / task
Configure an extension point to update the workspace URL in email notifications, so that users can navigate to the correct workspace and view the extracted metadata.
Scripts / task
Set breakpoints or conditional logpoints to log messages to the console at specific lines, and remove logpoints when you are done debugging them.
Security management / task
Verify the capabilities that you have added using ServiceNow Otto for Security Incident Response (SIR) integration Toolkit and update the scripts for any required changes.
Field service management / reference
Several types of components are installed with the Advanced Capacity and Reservations Management feature, including tables, and script includes.
Service Portal / concept
Your CMS may include complex forms and customizations that do not render as expected in Service Portal.
Instance Security Hardening Settings / reference
Learn how scratchpad factors into the security posture of your instance and how to manage it so that malicious scripts can't be executed on it.
Digital End-User Experience (DEX) / task
Package a PowerShell script, a Ruby script, and an execution allowlist into an Agent Client Collector (ACC) plugin to run remedial actions on endpoints from the platform.
Portfolio Planning / concept
Customize the fields to be highlighted on the Prioritization tab of a portfolio plan according to your planning manager's needs.
Application development / concept
UI Test Script enables you to create test code for custom user interfaces exposing elements of Testing Library within the Automated Test Framework (ATF). Generate test scripts through conversational interaction with Build Agent and run them alongside other ATF tests.
Virtual Agent / reference
Use the Script Action utility in a Virtual Agent topic to run a script.
Customer service management / concept
This example script queries the opportunity table using the Get All Opportunities, Get Opportunities for Account Id, and Get Opportunity Details custom actions.
Workforce Optimization for Field Service / reference
Use extension points to call scripts for event categories such as meeting, time off, or work time.
Legal Service Delivery / task
Map the sender's email address, email content, and subject field from an email to legal request fields to automatically fill in information from the email to the submitted legal request.
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